Sentence examples for staggering advances from inspiring English sources

These milestones have been underpinned by staggering advances in micro-electronics, computing, and wireless technology in the last three decades.

The staggering advances in engineering that enabled the building of the medieval cathedrals and the introduction of the hammered piano, which allowed Beethoven to conceive a music of immense physical and emotional force, were both the result of technological advances.

Powered in part by the staggering advances in computer-graphic imagery, effects-driven movies of all types have escaped the genre ghetto and outpaced the more human-scale character studies at the box office.

We live in a world of ever-increasing convenience and easily accessible expertise made possible by vast and staggering advances in technology, but ever-decreasing in-person, one-to-one interaction with human beings.

Marketers have made staggering advances in their ability to analyse and understand what influences consumers, whether this be employing eye-tracking technology or using sophisticated data analytics to monitor real time consumer preferences.

They have given us tools through modern science, political will and effective partnerships like the Global Fund, to make staggering advances in global health in the short space of just over a decade.

He offered what he thought was a staggering advance -- $1 million.

Mrs. Clinton's staggering advance falls just below the $8.5 million received by Pope John Paul II in 1994.

The result was a staggering advance in the pursuit of waves that trip seismographs when they break.

Within a year Harbach became the poster boy for his own semi-satirical thesis, scoring a staggering advance of $650,000 [£419,000] for his debut novel The Art of Fielding, which clocked in at a hefty 512 pages.

He soon received a staggering $750,000 advance from McGraw-Hill and a sizable check from Life magazine, which planned to publish excerpts from what became known as "Autobiography of Howard Hughes". With the help of a researcher and co-author, Richard Suskind, Mr. Irving began studying the details of Hughes's life, gathering old news stories and reference materials.